Fly Air, provides exclusive services such as guaranteed tickets, upgrades and dedicated customer lines to customers who use the airline more than 20 times a year. The company believes that not all customers are created equally. In this scenario, Fly Air is using _____ segmentation.
Each month, the owner of a small restaurant that sells take-out fried chicken and biscuits pays $2,500 in rent, $500 in utilities, $750 interest on a loan, insurance premium of $200, and $250 on advertising on local buses. A bucket of take-out chicken is priced at $9.50. Unit variable costs for the bucket of chicken are $5.50. How many small buckets of chicken does the restaurant need to sell to break even each month?
Bisky, a newly-founded biscuit company, is developing its first product, Jamz. It intends to the sell the product as a nutritious alternative to other biscuits. It markets the product with the tagline "A healthy snack for a healthy you." Which of the following is true of this scenario?
In the early 1980s, typical round-trip coach air fares from the East Coast to London were over $500. Then Freddie Laker introduced the
People's Express, a competing service into Newark at $350. Major airlines matched his price---and continued to do so until they drove
People's Express out of business. Then prices shot back up to over $500. A lawsuit filed under the Sherman Act resulted in the judgment that the major airlines had explicitly tried to destroy a competitor. The experience of People's Express is an example of __________ on the part of the major airlines.
